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“All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.”

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Book:St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
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“We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.”

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Book:The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
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